That reminds me of the airport locker scene in Men in Black. Are you suggesting that mere words have the power to totally corrupt a whole nations intelligence over a paltry 200 years or so ?
So, what species of animal do we have proof of that evolved into a completely new species?
Apart from the coelacanth and maybe crocodiles, just about all of them. Fossil records have shown which creatures were the ancestors of modern day species. Plus, there is usually more than one branch in the evolutionary tree, leading to various species, all decended from a common ancestor. I'm pretty sure whales have vestigial hips or legs, as we too have vestigial organs, all of which were probably relevant in the species that preceded us.
It always amuses me that creationists ask scientists for proof, when the creationist belief is based on, and defined by, a complete lack of that very thing !
This puts the shoe firmly back on Intel's foot. I'm sure Intel was hoping to not wear it for at least a little while.
No, this puts the shoe back on AMDs foot.
It may put the ball into Intels court, but thats another game entirely.
Hint : A shoe is a beneficial object that most people would like to have. An example. - Your abusive boss of many years is demoted and you end up in charge of him. Now the shoe is on the other foot - your foot.
Putting the ball into someone elses court puts them under pressure to respond or lose out - ie tennis.
"It was a tear drop shaped thing with a massive spherical wheel on the bottom and a limber tentacle or trunk at the top"
They communicated by vibrating a smaller spherical ball on the end of the trunk against another object (ie the ground). AFAICR
As for the sex, they chase each other round in an ever decreasing circle, incensed by each others trails, until they touch. Then the male polarian releases his large wheel and joins onto the females large wheel so that they both join at the seam. Then they spin the wheel until it springs into life and forms a child. After that, the female pinches the males communication wheel to use as a transit wheel, leaving him temporarily mute, and he gets to use his old transit wheel again.
I can't believe I just described that ! I do have the trilogy on the shelf though. It is the Cluster Trilogy by Piers Anthony, consisting of Vicinity Cluster, Chaining the Lady, and Kirlian Quest. Weird books, based around the transference of a beings aura across galactic distances and that aura inhabiting living "hosts" once transferred. Lots of tarot references too.
Yeah, I know someone said this already, but it must surely be obvious. I mean, do you leave all your real world mail on the doorstep or in the "mailbox" at the end of the drive ?
I used to work for a company where the "admin" had an inbox (Outlook Express) that had every mail she had ever received still in it, dating back around 3 years. Fine, not my problem - until she got a virus and I had to scan the whole damn thing. 6 f*ckin hours to scan it ! Productivity - NOT.
Personally, I have all my email accounts as IMAP on my server and deal with all incoming mail as soon as I can. I delete the crap, and read then move to a relevant folder all the rest. Once a month or so, I use Outlook Express on my laptop to download all the stored mail and clear out the IMAP folders. I use message rules in OE to sort the incoming mail into the relevant folders as it comes in, so I don't even have to look at it ( I have already read this mail remember - I just use Ctrl + A and Ctrl + Q to mark all the messages as read in each folder). This is so that I have a local mobile copy of everything in case of a fire or other disaster that I can just grab on my way out the door. Also comes in handy when travelling.
I have moved the outlook express dbx storage folder to a separate partition on the laptop disk, so that if/when I require a re-install of xp I can just point OE to that folder and recover all my mail. Also, once every so often I run DbxConv on the dbx files and convert them to mbox format, then archive them to a cd/dvd for backup. I currently have around 10,000 messages on the laptop organised by subject ( Servers / Domains / Bike / various LUGs / mailing lists / UT2K3 / various website traffic / personal stuff / etc etc) dating back to 2001 (when I bought this particular laptop) which takes up around 250 MB.
My inboxes however, in both OE and on the IMAP servers are completely empty. Yes I do have gmail, but given the nature of the beast, I don't use it for any messages of consequence, and label then archive any mail I do get, so the inbox is still empty.
Is it so hard to stay on top of things that people invent new software just to filter mail because they are too lazy to do it themselves ? And don't give me the Time excuse. If you start with an empty inbox, the time required to keep it that way is minimal.
Now if you paid to subscribe to Slashdot and suddenly the front page loaded more slowly and you couldn't connect to MSN at all then you would be on to something.
Take the menubar being always at the top of the screen - not everyone likes that (personally it bugs me to have to traverse two wide-screen displays to get to the File menu), but it means it's "infinitely deep". You can slam the mouse as fast as you like to the top of the screen and it'll still hit the menubar on a mac. Now I've seen people do the same thing on a PC (video-editing app), but they made it 1-pixel-in (presumably the border for a full-screen window took 1 pixel or something). Now it's nowhere near as easy to use...
Or you could hit Alt+F on the keyboard - no aiming required.
I have never owned a mac, so the shortcuts may be different, but I'd be surprised if they didn't exist..
(tip. If you're using Firefox on linux, drag the link to a xine window and stream it. If you're using windows, then you might have to copy the link and paste it into your player- vlc is good)
Let's just hope they don't edit the "news" to fit the current administrations definition of history. Ministry of Truth anyone ? All it would take is new voice overs to old video footage. </tinfoil hat>
I have a battery that I haven't used for 6 months.
I didn't over charge it, it wasn't damaged, I just stopped using the phone. I had removed the battery to get at the sim card (for transfer to a new phone) and left it on a shelf. It wasn't in direct sunlight, and the temperature never gets above 25/30 degrees in the room. Yet after 6 months of inactivity, it looks like this.
The photos don't do the distortion justice, it has ballooned by roughly 50% of its thickness. I'm a little unsure of how to dispose of this thing safely:-/
When was the last time you edited something compressed with mpeg2 or mpeg4 ? If you have any cuts, you lose synch. And this idea is totally comprised of "cuts".
Not crashing while using a phone != good driving while using a phone.
There is enough to concentrate on while driving on crowded roads these days without taking 1 hand and half your brain away while you're doing it.
And yes, I am a qualified, professional driver.
The sooner all cars are fully automatic - ie. the driver has no control whatsoever - then the sooner the roads will be safe for the rest of us. You're only interested in talking on the phone, doing a bit of paperwork, playing video games, eating, listening to your stereo, and other non-driving related activities. All of that while navigating a piece of iron weighing around 1.5 tons through crowded streets !
I agree. I watch xvid movies at between 600MB to 1GB in size and they are perfectly adequate on a large screen. My projector will do 1024x768 but I use it at 800x600.
One interesting thing recently was the BBCs series Planet Earth with David Attenborough. This is their first series to have been originally filmed in high def. It shows - even on my low res screen. No jittering pans and crystal clear quality. So I think most people will be fine viewing high def through standard tvs, as the mpeg2 artifacts are not visible even at low res, which is an improvement over dvd.
BTW, I watch digital tv broadcasts, which is mpeg2, so hi-def over mpeg2 is perfectly adequate for my needs, as far as I can see anyway.
I agree with the other "broadcast in divx" posters also. The quality improvement combined with the reduction in required bandwidth is a win-win situation. I can already "download" a 1GB xvid movie over a 100mbps lan faster than I can watch it, so VoD is really going to get mainstream, but not if they adopt hi-def with 50GB filesizes.
I recently recorded part of a show from DVB TV so it sarted out as mpeg2. I then converted it to xvid, and uploaded it to my web server (colocated in Texas, you know the one;-), and successfully streamed it from that server to my pc in the uk, connected by a 2Mbit adsl line. It buffered for about 20 to 30 seconds before it started playing, and there were no more interruptions. I'm pretty sure if I can do it, so can Time-Warner, Sony, Fox, the BBC etc, etc. I'll try it again now I have a 6Mbit line.
Isn't Kent State the college where they executed Vietnam War protesters in the 1970s?
If by they you mean the local National Guard, and by executed you mean fired live ammo to disperse the crowd without orders or permission, then you might be correct, but it's still an extremely inflammatory way of expressing it.
Isn't the USA the place where people are imprisoned indefinitely without charge or trial ? Isn't the USA the country that has repeatedly supported/installed totalitarian regimes around the world, just to ensure continued supplies of oil ?.
Be careful how you rewrite history - as you might shine a light into places that you'd rather remain dark.
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Add to that the number of web sites using an aging perl shopping cart system whereby half the credit card number is immediately emailed to the admin and the rest is stored as plain text on the server. Also the web sites who claim that your numbers are perfectly safe as they are using 128 bit encryption and the data is not decrypted until it reaches their [colocated, probably virtual] server. I had an argument with some previous employers when they insisted on calling their colocated RAQ3 a "secure server". I pointed out that they had never even seen the facility that it was housed in, and the private data was freely accessable using telnet, because it wasn't encrypted once ssl had done with it.
Just as a an example, I set up a shopping cart of the type I mentioned and they thought it was the mutts nutz until I showed them that I was receiving both parts of the credit card numbers by email at a private email account. Even then I don't think they thought it was a problem. I left shortly afterwards.
I wonder whose harvesting those numbers now...
BTW, I deleted that shopping cart, so I am not guilty of abusing the system. It was done to prove a point.
The BBC is reporting that the much vaunted Hurricane Simulator experiment in Ontario has surpassed expectations by not only destroying the test subject but also the building it was housed in. While some blame the catastrophe on the Big Bad Wolf, more reasoning minds have posited that "maybe they should have used more nails to hold it down".
If someone's tresspassing I'm going to shoot them anyway, regardless of whether they think they're teaching me a lesson.
And when that trespasser is having to break in because you are ignoring them or the phone line's down and you can't be reached, or the house is on fire and the smoke has knocked you unconcious, should you still shoot first and ask questions later ?
Even to take your statement as it stands, you will have learned something from their "attack" - if you notice it and even get to *shoot* in the first place.
I think the saying - A fool and their money are soon parted - can be adapted for use here. An idiot admin and their computer are soon rooted.
Shooting the messenger soon leads to getting no messages.
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Pretty weak minded in the first place if so...
It always amuses me that creationists ask scientists for proof, when the creationist belief is based on, and defined by, a complete lack of that very thing !
If you show us yours we'll show you ours !
It may put the ball into Intels court, but thats another game entirely.
Hint : A shoe is a beneficial object that most people would like to have.An example. - Your abusive boss of many years is demoted and you end up in charge of him. Now the shoe is on the other foot - your foot.
Putting the ball into someone elses court puts them under pressure to respond or lose out - ie tennis.
sorry for the nag, but use it or lose it.No, wait...
I'll get my coat ...
"It was a tear drop shaped thing with a massive spherical wheel on the bottom and a limber tentacle or trunk at the top"
They communicated by vibrating a smaller spherical ball on the end of the trunk against another object (ie the ground). AFAICR
As for the sex, they chase each other round in an ever decreasing circle, incensed by each others trails, until they touch. Then the male polarian releases his large wheel and joins onto the females large wheel so that they both join at the seam. Then they spin the wheel until it springs into life and forms a child. After that, the female pinches the males communication wheel to use as a transit wheel, leaving him temporarily mute, and he gets to use his old transit wheel again.
I can't believe I just described that !I do have the trilogy on the shelf though. It is the Cluster Trilogy by Piers Anthony, consisting of Vicinity Cluster, Chaining the Lady, and Kirlian Quest. Weird books, based around the transference of a beings aura across galactic distances and that aura inhabiting living "hosts" once transferred. Lots of tarot references too.
Ha,hah heh heh hee hee hee har har har har har har har har har har har har har har har har har har
*splutter* I think I'm going to puke.ROFLMFAO
Now where's that screen cleaner ?
I used to work for a company where the "admin" had an inbox (Outlook Express) that had every mail she had ever received still in it, dating back around 3 years. Fine, not my problem - until she got a virus and I had to scan the whole damn thing. 6 f*ckin hours to scan it ! Productivity - NOT.
Personally, I have all my email accounts as IMAP on my server and deal with all incoming mail as soon as I can. I delete the crap, and read then move to a relevant folder all the rest. Once a month or so, I use Outlook Express on my laptop to download all the stored mail and clear out the IMAP folders. I use message rules in OE to sort the incoming mail into the relevant folders as it comes in, so I don't even have to look at it ( I have already read this mail remember - I just use Ctrl + A and Ctrl + Q to mark all the messages as read in each folder). This is so that I have a local mobile copy of everything in case of a fire or other disaster that I can just grab on my way out the door. Also comes in handy when travelling.
I have moved the outlook express dbx storage folder to a separate partition on the laptop disk, so that if/when I require a re-install of xp I can just point OE to that folder and recover all my mail. Also, once every so often I run DbxConv on the dbx files and convert them to mbox format, then archive them to a cd/dvd for backup. I currently have around 10,000 messages on the laptop organised by subject ( Servers / Domains / Bike / various LUGs / mailing lists / UT2K3 / various website traffic / personal stuff / etc etc) dating back to 2001 (when I bought this particular laptop) which takes up around 250 MB.
My inboxes however, in both OE and on the IMAP servers are completely empty. Yes I do have gmail, but given the nature of the beast, I don't use it for any messages of consequence, and label then archive any mail I do get, so the inbox is still empty.
Is it so hard to stay on top of things that people invent new software just to filter mail because they are too lazy to do it themselves ? And don't give me the Time excuse. If you start with an empty inbox, the time required to keep it that way is minimal.I'm sorry, I just can't.
I have never owned a mac, so the shortcuts may be different, but I'd be surprised if they didn't exist..
Don't make me work harder just to read your point.
Have a gander. [xvid 250MB]
(tip. If you're using Firefox on linux, drag the link to a xine window and stream it. If you're using windows, then you might have to copy the link and paste it into your player- vlc is good)The video works fine for me using Xine on FC4.
Great !
<tinfoil hat>Let's just hope they don't edit the "news" to fit the current administrations definition of history.
Ministry of Truth anyone ?
All it would take is new voice overs to old video footage.
</tinfoil hat>
I didn't over charge it, it wasn't damaged, I just stopped using the phone. I had removed the battery to get at the sim card (for transfer to a new phone) and left it on a shelf. It wasn't in direct sunlight, and the temperature never gets above 25/30 degrees in the room. Yet after 6 months of inactivity, it looks like this.
The photos don't do the distortion justice, it has ballooned by roughly 50% of its thickness. I'm a little unsure of how to dispose of this thing safely :-/
Fuck yeah !
Now suck my cock(Only kidding)
When was the last time you edited something compressed with mpeg2 or mpeg4 ? If you have any cuts, you lose synch. And this idea is totally comprised of "cuts".
Maybe you'all ought to take a cue from people without an axe to grind.
Do you drive a white van too ?
Not crashing while using a phone != good driving while using a phone.
There is enough to concentrate on while driving on crowded roads these days without taking 1 hand and half your brain away while you're doing it.
And yes, I am a qualified, professional driver.
The sooner all cars are fully automatic - ie. the driver has no control whatsoever - then the sooner the roads will be safe for the rest of us. You're only interested in talking on the phone, doing a bit of paperwork, playing video games, eating, listening to your stereo, and other non-driving related activities. All of that while navigating a piece of iron weighing around 1.5 tons through crowded streets !
I fucking hate car drivers !
One interesting thing recently was the BBCs series Planet Earth with David Attenborough. This is their first series to have been originally filmed in high def. It shows - even on my low res screen. No jittering pans and crystal clear quality. So I think most people will be fine viewing high def through standard tvs, as the mpeg2 artifacts are not visible even at low res, which is an improvement over dvd.
BTW, I watch digital tv broadcasts, which is mpeg2, so hi-def over mpeg2 is perfectly adequate for my needs, as far as I can see anyway.
I agree with the other "broadcast in divx" posters also. The quality improvement combined with the reduction in required bandwidth is a win-win situation. I can already "download" a 1GB xvid movie over a 100mbps lan faster than I can watch it, so VoD is really going to get mainstream, but not if they adopt hi-def with 50GB filesizes.
I recently recorded part of a show from DVB TV so it sarted out as mpeg2. I then converted it to xvid, and uploaded it to my web server (colocated in Texas, you know the one ;-), and successfully streamed it from that server to my pc in the uk, connected by a 2Mbit adsl line. It buffered for about 20 to 30 seconds before it started playing, and there were no more interruptions. I'm pretty sure if I can do it, so can Time-Warner, Sony, Fox, the BBC etc, etc. I'll try it again now I have a 6Mbit line.
dick.
Isn't the USA the place where people are imprisoned indefinitely without charge or trial ? Isn't the USA the country that has repeatedly supported/installed totalitarian regimes around the world, just to ensure continued supplies of oil ?.
Be careful how you rewrite history - as you might shine a light into places that you'd rather remain dark.
Just as a an example, I set up a shopping cart of the type I mentioned and they thought it was the mutts nutz until I showed them that I was receiving both parts of the credit card numbers by email at a private email account. Even then I don't think they thought it was a problem. I left shortly afterwards.
I wonder whose harvesting those numbers now...
BTW, I deleted that shopping cart, so I am not guilty of abusing the system. It was done to prove a point.
The BBC is reporting that the much vaunted Hurricane Simulator experiment in Ontario has surpassed expectations by not only destroying the test subject but also the building it was housed in. While some blame the catastrophe on the Big Bad Wolf, more reasoning minds have posited that "maybe they should have used more nails to hold it down".
Even to take your statement as it stands, you will have learned something from their "attack" - if you notice it and even get to *shoot* in the first place.
I think the saying - A fool and their money are soon parted - can be adapted for use here. An idiot admin and their computer are soon rooted.
Shooting the messenger soon leads to getting no messages.